Whoever Does Not Work is the Gravedigger for His Own Children (Wer nicht arbeitet ist die Totengräber seiner Kinder)
1919 · Lithograph
48 1/16 x 34" (122 x 86.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Cesar Klein
?–1954
PaintingExpressionism
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4
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César Klein was a German Expressionist painter and designer, probably best known as one of the founders the November Group and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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